Category: SF Bay Area Events

Bay Area (Sun, June 7): Public Meeting to Kickoff Our Summer Organizing Campaign

IT’S UP TO US! Join the kickoff meeting for our summer organizing campaign on Sunday, June 7th in Berkeley to:Stand up to their attacks!Save Alameda Health System!Protect Public Transit!Keep ICE Out of the Bay! Speak Out Summer Organizing Kickoff Meeting in BERKELEY: Sunday, June 7th at 3 PM (doors open 2:45pm)Judge Henry Ramsey Jr. Center2939 […]

Bay Area May Day Events (Fri May 1)

Join Speak Out Socialists to march for May Day in the Bay Area! Look for Speak Out tables at both Oakland and San Francisco May Day celebrations. March with us in OAKLAND: Friday, May 1st at 2 pmFruitvale Plaza (35th & International Blvd.)Look for the Speak Out table Download the Oakland flyer March with us […]

Bay Area: May Day Celebration (Sun May 3)

Join Speak Out Socialists to celebrate May Day, or International Worker’s Day. This is an opportunity to connect, socialize, and also discuss the current political situation. Drinks and refreshments will be provided! Celebrate with us in BERKELEY: Sunday, May 3rd at 3 pm (doors open at 2:45 pm)Judge Henry Ramsey Jr. Center2939 Ellis St, Berkeley […]

Bay Area Speak Out Socialists Organizing Meeting (Sun, Apr 12)

May 1 is International Workers’ Day. It is a day to celebrate the power of the working class, which makes the whole system run. This year it is a day to stand up across the country and show our opposition to the attacks of this regime, their wars abroad and their wars at home. Let’s […]

ICE Out of the Bay! Organizing Meeting 2/21

ICE Out of the Bay! Organizing Meeting Minnesota shows us what needs to be done! Come to a discussion and organizing meeting about what we’re facing and how we can spread our organizing. It’s up to us to defend our communities. Join us in Oakland: Saturday, February 21 at 3:00pm PTOakland Public Library • César Chávez […]

Bay Area Public Meeting (Sun, Feb 1): ICE OUT! We Can Organize to Defend Ourselves

Bay Area Speak Out Socialists Public Meeting We can’t wait as ICE continues to invade and terrorize our communities. Workers in hospitals, teachers in schools, and people in our neighborhoods have already begun to organize to stop ICE terror. Come to an organizing meeting and panel discussion with speakers who’ve already started to do this […]

Event Video (Sept 21, 2025): NO GENOCIDE IN OUR NAME! STOP THE FAMINE!

An update on Gaza by Nora Barrows-Friedman Speak Out Socialists Public Meetings An update on the situation in Gaza by Nora Barrows-Friedman, an activist and associate editor for The Electronic Intifada (electronicintifada.net) and co-host with Ali Abunimah, of the radio show, The Electronic Intifada, Tuesdays on KPFA 94.1FM (kpfa.org). She has been a reporter and […]

Event Video (June 22, 2025): Trump’s Program of Deportations and Border Militarization

An online discussion with Todd Miller Speak Out Socialists Public Meetings From Obama to Biden to Trump, the U.S. has carried out aggressive anti-immigrant deportation programs and border militarization. Now, Trump has accelerated these attacks into a full-scale militarized assault on immigrants and anyone who attempts to resist their authoritarian regime. Join us to discuss […]

Event Video: The Crisis of Capitalism Today with Dr. Richard Wolff (June 1, 2025)

Presentation Q&A Portion Speak Out Now organizes regular public townhalls as a means to present our ideas and activities. We frequently invite speakers who have an expertise in their field, which we do not have, or activists who have participated in social struggles where we were not present. We have had speakers both from the […]

Public Meetings: Sunday, April 13 & April 26 (Bay Area, Baltimore & North Carolina)

Trump’s Assault on the Planet is an Assault on Us! Speak Out Socialists Public Meetings Removing environmental protections, erasing decades of climate research, expanding drilling — the Trump administration has exposed this system for what it really is: a dictatorship of a tiny class of billionaires, who have put all life on this planet at […]

Event Video: The Forced Migration Crisis at the Border (July 2024)

The Forced Migration Crisis at the Border Tens of millions of people around the world are being forced from their homes. The climate crisis, economic, political, and social crises–the violence of poverty, the state, and gangs–have made life impossible in their homelands. The politicians–both Democrats and Republicans–want us to believe that these thousands of desperate […]

Event Video: We Will Not Be Silenced! Anti-Zionism is Not Anti-Semitism (Jan 28, 2024)

We Will Not Be Silenced! Anti-Zionism is Not Anti-Semitism! We must oppose the genocidal attack on the people of Palestine. Over 25,000 people, nearly 10,000 children, have been murdered. The claim that opposition to Israel’s mass murder is anti-Semitic—a continuation of the historical attack on Jewish people—is a lie. We must oppose this war! Anti-Zionism […]

WEST COAST MARCH FOR GAZA (JAN. 14)

Join thousands of others to demonstrate our opposition to this genocidal attack on Palestinians. Sunday, January 14 at 1pm San Francisco Civic Center Plaza Speak Out Now will be there. Join Us. Look for our booth in the plaza. {image to share on social media}

Video: Online Town Hall with Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch about the situation in Gaza

Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch is a Palestinian refugee and the Executive Director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance (mecaforpeace.org). This war is a U.S. war — armed, paid for, and backed up by the U.S. government. Our solidarity lies in building a movement here as part of a worldwide resistance. On November 12, 2023, Zeiad Abbas […]

Join Us: International Day of Solidarity with Palestine! Saturday, November 4th

Join us Saturday November 4th in San Francisco and Washington D.C. to demonstrate your opposition to this genocidal war! Check our website for additional resources and upcoming events. San Francisco – Civic Center, 1pm PT Washington D.C. – Freedom Plaza, 2pm ET Download a .pdf flyer for the San Francisco demonstration Download a .pdf flyer […]

In-Person Discussion in Berkeley: Sun. Oct. 29 at 5pm PT

Oppose Israel’s War on Palestinians! Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza is taking place with the complete support of the United States government. We cannot remain silent while this horrific assault is being carried out in our name. We must do everything we can to demonstrate our opposition to it. Come discuss Israel’s war on the […]

Online Town Hall: Sat. Aug. 5 at 12pm PST (3pm EST)

Police Murder in France-A Nationwide Uprising On June 27, French police murdered Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old student of North African descent, in Nanterre, a working class suburb of Paris. The video of his murder triggered a massive response of mostly poor and working class youth across France for days. French President Macron ordered the mobilization […]

Online May Day Celebration: Sat. May 6 at 11am (pdt)/2pm (edt)

May Day is the celebration of the global struggles of the working class in the fight for a better world for all. As we face the growing challenges in front of us, let’s remember that we are not alone in our fight, and that the working class of the world is confronting the same enemy. […]

Online Town Hall: Sun. Apr. 23 at 4pm PDT (7pm EDT)

Who is Essential? Who is Not? Join us to discuss the lessons from the pandemic with Jamie McCallum Jamie McCallum is an author, activist, and associate professor at Middlebury College. His work focuses on labor and work issues around the world. He travelled the country during the pandemic, speaking with essential, front-line workers, resulting in […]

Online Town Hall: Sat. Mar. 11 at 4pm PST (7pm EST)

Good Housing is a Right! We have always had a housing crisis in this society. People with little or no money are not guaranteed a safe, comfortable place to live. The Covid pandemic meant that people lost jobs while rents were going through the roof. Government eviction-relief in response to Covid is now ending. What […]

Online Town Hall: Sat. Feb. 4 at 12pm PST (3pm EST)

Workers in Britain Fight Back! Working-class people in the United Kingdom are facing the biggest attack on their standard of living since the 1950s. Housing and household expenses are climbing, averaging over 16%, with heating bills up 50%. The value of real wages has fallen over many years. Since the middle of 2022, hundreds of […]

Online Town Hall: Sat. Jan. 21 at 4pm PST (7pm EST)

2023: A Coming Economic Crisis? Who Will Pay? With Richard Wolff We face the effects of global corporations’ competition and profit maximization which has led to economic warfare pitting the U.S. and the E.U. against Russia and China. The Covid pandemic and the effects of the war in Ukraine have impacted the lives of working […]

Video: Online Town Hall — Sat. Dec. 10 at 12pm PST (3pm est)

Iran: A Mass Uprising … Where Could it Lead? The death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini after her beating by Tehran’s so-called “morality police” has sparked one of the most significant and sustained protest movements in the history of the Iranian regime. What are the prospects for the movement, and what is the potential for the […]

Video: Online Town Hall: Saturday, November 19 at 11am pst (2pm est)

The Current Working Class Fight in Argentina The international economic crisis has hit Argentina with a vengeance, with inflation expected to hit 100% for 2022. Powerful mobilizations of unemployed and underemployed workers have broken out. After a 5-month strike, the Single Union of Argentine Tire Workers (SUTNA) forced the tire companies to give a massive […]

Online Town Hall: Sunday, September 25 at 4pm pdt (7pm edt)

The Abortion Struggle Today — Our Right and Our Fight This is the video recording of the presentation by Jenny Brown at the Set 25 town hall. Ever since Roe v Wade legalized limited access to abortion in 1973, it has been under attack across the country. The nationwide assault on abortion rights has many […]

Friday 9/23 Climate Strike at UC Berkeley

Take part in the global day of action Climate Strike at UC Berkeley with a speak out and rally! Friday September 23rd at 12pm at Sproul Plaza Bring signs, friends, and a short speech for the open mic!

Online May Day Celebration Saturday, April 30

May Day is the celebration of the global struggles of the working class in the fight for a better world for all. Join us for a celebration of May Day, honoring the struggles of the past and recognizing those that lie ahead. Saturday, April 30th PDF flyer download (8.5″x11″)

Online Discussion Saturday, April 9th

Capitalism and The Climate Emergency Unfortunately author Andreas Malm will no longer be able to join us for this event. Instead members of Speak Out Now will be hosting this discussion. Climate change is the most severe crisis of our time. The future of life on this planet is at risk. Despite the serious warnings […]

Presentation on War in Ukraine from Online Townhall on Saturday, March 19th

End the War on the People of Ukraine! Russia’s horrific invasion of Ukraine is devastating the country — bombing hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, houses and more. Civilian death tolls are estimated to be in the thousands, and over two million Ukrainians have fled to neighboring countries. We must oppose Russia’s brutal and totally unjustified attack […]

Online Townhall Saturday, February 26th

In 2016, amid an epidemic of police shootings of Black people, NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a series of protests on the field, refusing to stand during the U.S. national anthem.

Online Townhall Sat. January 22nd

Dr. Gandhi will be discussing the realities of the pandemic, what we know about the corona virus how it has touched the lives of billions of people around the world, what is being done and what should be done to minimize its impact. If there is anyone qualified to speak about this pandemic it is Dr. Gandhi.

Online Townhall Sat. November 6th

n the midst of a pandemic that has ravaged the world, especially its most marginalized communities, we have often found ourselves asking where we went wrong and how we could do better at health care.

Online Townhall Sat. October 2nd

The COVID-19 pandemic has further revealed the shocking racial disparities in our health and our healthcare globally. Our bodies, societies, and planet are inflamed.

Workplace Health & Safety: A Constant Struggle Under Capitalism

Online Townhall Sat. Aug. 21st As the economy and our society fully “reopens” with the removal of most health protections, questions are being raised about what this will mean for working people. Regardless of our workplace, the following year has shown us that we will need to take the initiative to demand a safe work […]

Online Townhall (June 5th, 2021)

The Tokyo Summer Olympics: Capitalist Mega-Games in a Pandemic Jules Boykoff will situate the upcoming Tokyo Summer Olympics in the wider political and economic history of the Olympics in the 21st century, and outline the central critiques that have emerged against the Olympics as well as the anti-Games activism that have popped up around the […]